3. Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing,
Sponsored by Marquis Book Printing (new award, inaugural winner)The Ocean Ranger: Remaking the Promise of Oil by Susan Dodd, published by Fernwood Publishing

4. Dartmouth Book Award for Non-fiction in Memory of Robbie Robertson
Presented by the Kiwanis Club of DartmouthFrench Taste in Atlantic Canada 1604-1758: A Gastronomic History/Le goût français au Canada atlantique 1604-1758 : une histoire gastronomique
by Anne Marie Lane Jonah and Chantal Véchambre, published by Cape Breton University Press

5. Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingIn Search of R.B. Bennett, by P.B. Waite, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press

6. E.J. Pratt Poetry Award (one of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards)
Presented by the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and LabradorParadoxides by Don McKay, published by McClelland & Stewart

8. Lillian Shepherd Award for Excellence in IllustrationI is for Island: A Prince Edward Island Alphabet, illustrated by Brenda Jones, written by Hugh MacDonald, published by Sleeping Bear Press

9. Margaret and John Savage First Book AwardDirty Bird by Keir Lowther, published by Tightrope Books

10. Rogers Communications Award for Non-Fiction (part of the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards)
Presented by the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador in partnership with the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and LabradorIn The Field, by Joan Sullivan, published by Breakwater Books